The Lives of Beryl Markham
The Lives of Beryl Markham
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The Lives of Beryl Markham by Errol Trzebinski
On November 5, 1917, Taylorville, Illinois native Clara Taylor stepped off a Trans-Siberian Railway train into a city then called Petrograd, Russia. Employed by the YWCA as an industrial expert, Clara had been sent to Russia to help establish Associations in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow. Her main charge while in Russia was to survey and report on factory conditions, but Clara only spent a fraction of her stay in Russia visiting factories; due to the vagaries of the political, social, and economic revolution the upheaval of an entire culture Clara and her colleagues spent most of their first year in Russia teaching English, home economics, book keeping, literature, and basketball, and sponsoring lectures, dances and sing-alongs for Russian working women. Clara s letters, collected in this book, tell of both the mundane and the extraordinary: what the YW staff ate for dinner; how the Bolshevik suppression of free speech impacted Americans ability to communicate with those at home; shootings in the streets; bartering for pounds of sugar; conversing with nobility, with intellectuals, and with workers; attending the opera; and sight-seeing at monasteries. Together, Clara s letters to her family her dearest ones at home tell a compelling story of one American woman s experiences in Revolutionary Russia.
Trzebinski, Errol: - Errol Trzebinski has spent over half her life in Kenya. She was a consultant on the film Out of Africa.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780393035568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393035565 |
| Titel | The Lives of Beryl Markham |
| Autor | Errol Trzebinski |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1993-08-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 396 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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